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Tamaqua police

• Luke Fowler, 24, New Philadelphia, is facing charges of terroristic threats and simple assault after a road rage incident on Sept. 21, Tamaqua police said.

A woman told police that she was traveling on Route 209 earlier in the day to get to the Lehigh Carbon Community College in Tamaqua. When she arrived, she told police that she saw a vehicle that “brake checked” her as she was driving. The man exited his car, laughed at her, and as he walked toward her, he told her that “she was lucky that he did not beat her.”

Police said a school security guard asked the man, later identified as Fowler, what was going on. The man told him that the woman was tailgating him on Route 209.

The security guard also told police that he heard Fowler say, “Come on. Let’s go. I’ll (expletive) kill you, you (expletive).”

The woman told police she feared for her safety.

• Tamaqua police cited two borough men with causing a disturbance after they began fighting over trash that was left on the sidewalk.

According to police, John Perdomo Carvajal, 28, and William Willing, 52, fought on the unit block of Hunter Street at 3:19 p.m. Oct. 27.

• A drunk Tamaqua man was found lying on a sidewalk on the 200-block of East Mauch Chunk Street at 11:51 p.m. Oct. 27.

Police said Ryan Daniels, 42, showed multiple signs of intoxication. He was transported to his home and cited for public drunkenness.

• Two Tamaqua woman were cited for public drunkenness by borough police following a 2:28 a.m. Sunday incident outside a Union Street bar.

Police said they were called to the 500 block of East Union Street for a large fight in progress. They found a group of individuals on the corner of East Union and North Columbia streets, who said the fight began inside the bar.

Officers said the bartender identified two of the individuals as Juliana Hill, 26, and Breanna Horvath, 22.

Police attempted to speak with the two, but said both were belligerent, disorderly and showed signs of intoxication. Police told the two to stay away from the area that morning. Both then entered a vehicle for rides home but police saw the two exit about a block away and try to hide. They were later found inside the bar.

Police transported the two to Hill’s home.

At 3:45 a.m., the Schuylkill County Communications Center told police that Horvath reported her vehicle stolen. Police contacted Horvath to tell her that she was given a ride home by the police department and she could get her vehicle later in the day.

• Tamaqua police are investigating the theft of a dirt bike from a Franklin Street home.

According to police, the owner reported the bike missing on Oct. 30 and said he last saw it the evening before on his front porch.

Police said the victim’s porch camera captured an image of a person wearing all black and covering his face. Police will review the footage.